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HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, June 16, 2008 (ENS) – Higher energy prices and improving technology are making it easier and more attractive for drilling operators to explore and extract natural gas in Pennsylvania, but they must obey the state’s environmental laws and regulations the state’s top environmental official told oil and gas executives on Friday. Speaking at…

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, April 30, 2008 (ENS) – Trash trucks that don’t trash the air quality of the neighborhoods they serve soon will be traveling the streets of Pittsburgh. On Friday, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Air Management Association received a $127,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that will be used for a pilot project to…

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, March 18, 2008 (ENS) – An agreement announced today by the Department of Environmental Protection, PBS Coal Inc. and the Families of Flight 93 answers the question of how to permanently treat water that is draining from the Flight 93 crash site in Somerset County. On September 11, 2001, Flight 93, a United…